“They create the conditions they lament then refuse all the viable remedies.” They put shit tons of assault weapons on the streets to justify further militarization of America’s police force, which still hasn’t demonstrated competence or capability of neutralizing mass shooters.
And it’s clearly NOT a well-regulated militia if anyone can possess a firearm without the slightest obligation to prove they don’t plan to use it to kill themselves/others. *No MH provider* can save ANY of us from a person who isn’t acutely committable at the time of possession.
Unfortunately a lot of y’all are still drastically OVERESTIMATING the power & authority of psychiatrists and mental health courts, especially in a gun fetishism state like Texas. I’ve seen guns briefly held by cops but very soon returned to previously suicidal/homicidal patients.
Beyond that, if a patient tells you they have a gun but have no intention of hurting themselves or others with it today, that isn’t a permanent guarantee that those feelings or life circumstances won’t change outside of your office. Who do y’all think is policing all of that? 🧐
If my next visit with said gun-owning patient isn’t until 3 months from now, what fairy godmother do you think is responsible for making sure he/she doesn’t have a bad day and decide to break whatever promises they made to me, everyone else they know and/or their higher power?
I mean… IDK who’s gonna do that for each and every last one of the millions of gun owners who either 1) do have a psychiatric diagnosis, or 2) have never met the criteria (yet), thus would never even end up on the MH radar. It sure as fuck won’t be Greg, Dan, John or Ted though.
“Multiple calls made from classrooms during #Uvalde shooting as police waited in hallway, officials say” | Yet another problem our mental health system can’t fix: cowardly, complicit cops who refuse to protect & serve because they’re outgunned by an AR-15. twitter.com/i/events/15291…
Yes and many thanks for perfectly illustrating why the entire @GOP is blowing unregulated militia gunsmoke up everyone’s asses. Psychiatrists aren’t mind-readers & everyone who sees us ain’t 100% honest 100% of the time. Ban assault weapons NOW & stop scapegoating mental illness.
Oh and btw @Robin1226, we don’t just ask about guns b/c insurance forces us to, it’s a standard preventive medicine & personal/public safety question that PCPs are increasingly asking b/c 1) America has a gun violence epidemic & 2) America has a massive shortage of psychiatrists.
Let me address this now (again) b/c folk keep asking: NO I’M STILL NOT opening an account on any other social media platform. Y’all are asking this of a Black, native Texan woman whose entire family tree is Black native Texan. *I don’t flee for the Confederacy’s benefit.*
Y’all can feel free to do what sits right in your spirit but I’m not scared of a damn tweet. I walk around IRL as a Black woman knowing full well that my gracefully unbothered existence in spaces racists don’t want me in is an act of civil disobedience, protest & radicalism.
Not only that but what point is even being proven right now other than a real time illustration of how easy and uncomplicated it was (still is) for certain folk to flee to bluer, “safer” territory for the Confederacy’s benefit while the space they fled becomes more Confederate?
1 more blast from the past since folk still can’t do math or handle the truth. Ds are still contending with #WeakAssUnreliableAllies who “swing” in & out of the ⛺️ on a whim based on White/White adjacent grievance every 2-4 yrs and make maintaining a winning coalition impossible.
Matter of fact, miss me with the feigned confusion altogether b/c it’s BEEN plain as fucking day that culture wars are all the GOP has left and that WW (specifically) were/are susceptible to said wars to the extent that their bigotry is superseding their woman/motherhood.
After years of xenophobic klan sentiment on the GOP campaign trail, the El Paso shooter drove ~10 hrs to gun down Hispanic Texans on White supremacy/nationalism’s behalf. The anti-Haitian rhetoric propagated by Trump/Vance/MAGA isn’t just a hateful lie, it’s stochastic terrorism.
Nobody gets to pretend the writing hasn’t been on the wall since Birtherism and Trump’s promise to build a wall but make Mexico pay for it. They tell us to “remember the Alamo” but expect us to forget El Paso, Buffalo, Pittsburgh (Tree of Life) and the Atlanta spa shootings.
I don’t wanna hear shit else about Trump or the GOP “toning down their rhetoric” when the volume of the klan rally’s been at 💯 since 9/11 which is technically only a slight uptick from what they’ve been doing to Indigenous, Black and Brown people on American soil for CENTURIES.
If JD doesn’t know any professional women who are happily married moms, he should just say that. 🙄 I had my 1st son 6 weeks before my Masters graduation/3 months before residency. My 2nd son was born 2 weeks before residency graduation. I prioritize EVERYTHING altogether, MFer!
This reminds me of 1 of my fave scenes in 1 of my fave movies, ‘Baby Boom’, when J.C. (Diane) finally accepts motherhood/a career change and tells her male colleagues, “I don’t want it all.” We’ve learned how to juggle kids & work without being miserable. vice.com/en/article/did…
Which is also why chauvinistic jerks like JD have so much shit to talk about us. They’re mad that their ploy to make motherhood & marriage incompatible with a profession has failed miserably and that they still have to compete and share power with us in the workforce and at home.
I recently saw a patient whom I’ve been seeing for almost 6 months and when I asked how he’s been doing since our last visit 6 weeks ago, among a laundry list of stressors, he said “there’s gonna be a civil war and I’m gonna end up dead.” 🥴🫣
It was telling b/c he’d never uttered that type of rhetoric with me before & the only thing that changed between visits was Biden passing the torch to Kamala. He mentioned it in passing then quickly moved onto something else but he said it like civil war was suddenly inevitable.
The other thing is I don’t know his political alignment and we’ve never discussed it but when White men of a certain age and geography say shit like that all I hear is nostalgia for the Confederacy. 🤷🏾♀️ They’re reflexively threatening civil war in anticipation of electoral defeat.